Ejection phase indices such as mean velocity of circumferential fiber shortening (V-cf), ejection fraction (EF), and mean normalized systolic ejection rate (MSER) are thought to reflect the level of left ventricular (LV) inotropic state. Although known to be influenced by changes in afterload, their response to altered preload is less certain. This question was examined in ten normal subjects s...

The incorporation of enantiopure 1-amino-2,3-propanediol as a subcomponent into a dicopper double helicate resulted in perfect chiral induction of the helicate's twist. DFT calculations allowed the determination of the helicity of the complex in solution. The same helical induction, in which S amines induced a Lambda helical twist, was observed in the solid state by X-ray crystallography. Elect...

We have used a continuous intravenous infusion of glucose (6 mg/kg/min), insulin (80 mU/min), epinephrine (6 mug/min), and propranolol (0.08 mg/min) to directly assess insulin resistance in 14 untreated adult onset diabetics with a mean (plus or minus SE) fasting plasma glucose level of 217 plus or minus 17 mg/100 ml. During the infusion endogenous insulin secretion is inhibited and steady-stat...

Three experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of feature similarity and discrimination category in a flanker task. Gabor patches were used as target and distractor stimuli for each experiment. In the first experiment, the target turned to minus or plus 45 deg from the vertical, whereas the orientation of the distractors changed between minus and plus 45 deg by 15 deg. For the seco...

‎for any integer $kge 1$‎, ‎a minus $k$-dominating function is a‎ ‎function $f‎ : ‎v (g)rightarrow {-1,0‎, ‎1}$ satisfying $sum_{win‎‎n[v]} f(w)ge k$ for every $vin v(g)$‎, ‎where $n(v) ={u in‎‎v(g)mid uvin e(g)}$ and $n[v] =n(v)cup {v}$‎. ‎the minimum of‎‎the values of $sum_{vin v(g)}f(v)$‎, ‎taken over all minus‎‎$k$-dominating functions $f$‎, ‎is called the minus $k$-domination‎‎number and i...

The time-series forecasting makes a substantial contribution in timely decision-making. In this article, recently developed eigenvalue decomposition of Hankel matrix (EVDHM) along with the autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) is applied to develop model for nonstationary time series. Phillips–Perron test (PPT) used define nonstationarity EVDHM over series decompose it into respectiv...